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Intel vs AMD? Forget it. The processor wars of the 90s are almost as legendary as Sega vs. Nintendo or Amiga vs. Atari. While Intel was improving the 386 and 486, competitors popped up like AMD and Cyrix, leaving Intel with a lot more competition on their hands than today, and various lawsuits followed along the way. These companies were dedicated to overtaking Intel in the processor race, and when Intel jumped to the Pentium, Cyrix and AMD weren't far behind with 5x86 and 6x86 processor iterations (AMD with their K6). This video will explore the whole Cyrix story, from their setup to their unfortunate demise. Along the way I'll ask the important question; Did Quake kill off Cyrix? Was it the undoing of an entire processor designer?.... It's a question which has basis in the Cyrix 686 processor's poor FPU performance and John Carmack's coding which leaned heavily on Intel FPU design. But it might not be the only reason why this silicon chip designer bit the bullet. This is an era where it wasn't just Intel vs AMD, or a simple price vs performance war. This was an era of Intel vs AMD vs Cyrix vs IDT, and for me, having lived through it, it's absolutely fascinating.

Sit back and witness glorious CPUs like the Cyrix 5x86, the 6x86, the MediaGX and the MII series. Along with early math co-processors that helped to make early x86 machines fly father than an IBM blue lightning chip set.

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The Sega Mega Drive, otherwise known as the Sega Genesis is a popular console. It came in various iterations such as the Mega Drive II, the Multi Mega and even clones. But what in the name of almighty glory is the Media Mega Drive? Well, I didn't know either, so I took a look and then went on quest to find it's origin and it's journey, so I could lay to rest the story of this "rare" console... The Media Mega Drive.
Is it a console knock off? Console rip off? A Mega Drive in disguise? A Chinese Mega Drive? Well...

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The key to unlocking the true potential of the N64 or just marketing spin? We go deep into the Nintendo 64 Expansion Pak in the biggest, most jam pak'd episode of Punching Weight ever! We even get a visit from the esteemed Mr. Matt McMuscles.
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The original PlayStation is a pretty neat thing. Using the CD as a storage medium was a smart move. But, Sony needed to add anti-piracy features to the disc to prevent miscreants from making bootleg copies of Crash Bandicoot. This video tells the story of how that works, why it wasn’t infallible, and also proposes a potentially impervious solution (24 years late, though).
Here’s that paper on reading optical discs. It’s a good read:
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Long ago, AMD was a second-source supplier for Intel, but soon started developing CPUs in-house and came up with some major innovations of its own...
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Remember the warming sounds of internet dial-up? Trying to get through to your internet provider, without an engaged tone. Trying to get a decent connection speed. Downloading GIFS, GIFS, GIFS. Well, thankfully we can still relive those past experiences thanks to a few ISPs who offer a dial up service. You can also grab a 56k modem cheap enough and even connect it up to your modern Windows 10 PC. So let's take a look at whether dial up is possible in 2017.
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Bose is a household name when it comes to speakers and headphones -- so just why do audiophiles hate it so much?
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This talk will demonstrate what everyone has long feared but never proven: there are hardware backdoors in some x86 processors, and they're buried deeper than we ever imagined possible. While this research specifically examines a third-party processor, we use this as a stepping stone to explore the feasibility of more widespread hardware backdoors.
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Hmmm, it's that nagging question; quick format vs full format? full format vs low level format?.... Do you remember formatting your hard drive in DOS?... The Hard Drive, in it's IBM PC Compatible format has been with us since, what? 1980? Data in the early days was encoded using MFM, which was updated to RLL, but in that time, other things also changed. Like what Low Level Formatting actually meant. Because originally Low Level Format actually meant writing the sector boundaries to your disk. IDE hard drives rarely let you do this, and doing so may have actually damaged your...

The Dragon 32 is an 8 bit computer made by Dragon Data Ltd in 1982. It was poised to compete with the Sinclair Spectrum and Commodore 64 computers in the UK markets. Based heavily on the Tandy Color Computer architecture, it was virtually compatible with the American machine, but different in some crucial ways to avoid lawsuits and define the Dragon as a new, Welsh machine.
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Yes, its a full size HDMI Sega Genesis / MegaDrive. It's from China and it's actually pretty good. So I decided what else this Eastern clone could do other than play games. First we'll compare the HDMI picture from this console to the original Mega Drive, then we'll get down and dirty with some peripherals such as the 32X, Mega CD and even the Sega Menacer.
We also take a walk down the Megadrive/Genesis RGB route to find the best picture setup for Sega's 16 bit machine of envy. It's pretty impressive what the original Mega Drive can do in...

Mystery eBay boxes. They're a thing. Well how about a mystery eBay beige PC BOX? Now, that's what I'm talking about. This is a 1990s IBM PC Compatible, I purchased from eBay for £56. It contains an AMD K5 Processor, 64MB of RAM, Trident video card and many, many delights on its 270MB HDD. In fact, some of these delights are probably best left hidden, if you catch my drift. So let's explore and unearth the shocking contents of this retro PC.
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The Commodore 64, otherwise known as the C64, C-64 or CBM64... What can I say about this machine that hasn't already said. It's an amazing piece of kit which has stood the test of time admirably. In this video, I'll give you the background story of the beast, as well as my personal views, a hardware rundown, my software picks (along with some terrible gameplay) and tell you what's been happening in more recent times for the 30+ year old Commodore machine. Sit back, relax, and grab your joysticks *ahem*.
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The Sega Mega CD, or Sega CD as it's known in the USA was an upgrade/add-on for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis which offered CD-ROM capability. Incorporating an additional Motorola 68000 chip, increased memory, and custom graphics and sound processing, the Mega CD was poised to be a massive leap forward in technology for existing Mega Drive owners. However, the additional components meant the unit was simply priced to high for most casual gamers. This, coupled with the delayed launch in Western regions, meant that people simply "made-do" with their existing hardware or waited until something better came along...

Although this video involves many companies such as Sinclair Radionics, Sinclair Instrument Ltd, Thandar Ltd and Cambridge Processor Unit, it boils down to the trading names of Acorn Computers and Sinclair Research and the rivalry between them during the early 1980s era of home computers. It's a very British story of the early micro computer industry, with each company respectively owned by Chris Curry (and Herman Hauser) and Clive Sinclair. This video charts the whole story from the inception of Clive Sinclair's first company, Sinclair Radionics, to when Chris Curry started working for him, to when he left and formed...

Let me take you back to the mid 1990's. Back to a time when we had to work to get a game to load. We had to sweat to make the sounds come from the speakers. When we had to understand how an IRQ or a DMA port affected our Soundblaster operation. When we had spend hours clearing as much Lower DOS memory as possible, just so we could play Space Hulk. Join me in this time as I convey exactly why Kids don't have it easy today, they have it damn hard!
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This documentary of gaming history charts of the story of DMA Design and their voyage from Thursday night evenings at the Dundee Computer Club back in 1983, through early ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 game conversions such as Zone Trooper & Shadow of the Beast, through the phenomenal success they encountered on the Amiga with titles such as Lemmings (and it's associated follow ups), past the Psygnosis days with the Nintendo period involving Unirally (and it's associated Pixar lawsuit) and Body Harvest and slap bang into The MS-DOS and PC era with the Grand Theft Auto series. The period when...

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The Sharp X68000 is an astonishing range of computers. A workstation designed primarily for games and released only in Japan, today we take a look at the "Pro" model from 1989. A home arcade, Capcoms arcade development machine of choice and an all out power house. Lets see what it can do!
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Old technology, don't you just love it. There was a time when floppy disk was king. Indeed for many, it remains so. But there was also a time when 120MB of data, even 240MB of data could be squeezed on a humble 3.5" floppy disk. This is a relaxing look at that very medium; The SuperDisk LS120 and LS240, floptical disk drives. A range designed by 3M to go head to head with Iomega's ZIP drive and achieve the title of Floppy Disk: The Next Generation.
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